"Wouldn’t this be too wasteful? And now there are so many people on the train, it’s not very appropriate."
"Waste what! It’s useless stuff. What’s wrong if a child wants to play with it? This family is not for you to speak out. I handle all the expenses of this family."
A family of three, and the response actually consists of three sentences. Enough information indeed.
Immediately, the family dynamics and the destination of these individuals became clear.
Ah Miao suddenly felt a bit sorry for this man.
Although she is a woman, she somewhat understands the hardships men face. She had encountered similar situations in the lower levels before, there was a divorce case in the lower levels of the Bunker, which was widely talked about at the time.
The woman asking for a divorce kept saying how much she had done for this family, while the man was completely indifferent... Everyone felt indignant, blaming the man for being a scoundrel.
But later, the man weakly said: I send 8,000 contribution points home every month and have never stopped for five years.
Suddenly, everyone fell silent.
This means, for five years, the man has been risking his life climbing the Slaughter Tower to support this family.
In this world, there are many people who give much more but don’t receive respect.
Ah Miao thought for a bit and said:
"Little brother, I’ll play the game with you."
The little boy immediately turned around, a creepy smile made Ah Miao’s heart skip a beat.
"Alright, I’ll wait for you in the front carriage."
Ah Miao suddenly had a bad feeling.
Xiaojin and Ah Miao reached the same conclusion. However, Xiaojin received a different answer.
Because after triggering the conversation, Xiaojin kept hearing the child’s voice:
"I want to play the game! I want to play the game! I want to play the game!"
This voice bombarded Xiaojin’s eardrums, making Xiaojin feel extremely irritated.
Xiaojin said:
"Wow, you’re really annoying, to make someone hate you so much, you’re quite impressive!"
Praising someone with a hint of sarcasm often lies on a fine line.
At that moment, the mother of the family of three said:
"I’ll wait for you in the front carriage!"
Xiaojin continued to praise:
"Wow, fat lady, your smile looks so disgusting! Disgusting in a unique way!"
At that instant, although the man wore a creepy smile, his eyes were utterly shocked.
And the woman, the one Xiaojin called fat lady, although her smile was creepy, her eyes already showed anger.
Xiaojin made a wry face:
"I’m not going to the front carriage."
That was truly what Xiaojin thought; he wouldn’t go to the front carriage, in case something weird happened, it would be life-threatening.
Let Brother Shu handle it, Brother Shu is the true leader.
But Xiaojin was also thinking:
"If I don’t go to the front carriage in this labyrinth... will Brother Shu have to clean up the mess I caused?"
Thinking this... Xiaojin immediately covered his mouth. He decided not to question these NPCs anymore.
After all, he felt each NPC was odd.
"Hope Brother Shu is doing alright." Xiaojin decided to stay at the starting point.
His approach was undoubtedly the wisest.
At this moment, including Wen Xishu, no one knew the specific gameplay and rules of the train.
Everyone only knew that this place is a labyrinth.
The thing Xiaojin feared the most was this kind of labyrinth, he could imagine that if he got lost in a specific carriage, even someone as strong as Brother Shu might not find him.
Therefore, though observing the NPCs in the first carriage, Xiaojin decided not to take any further action.
He was not the only one thinking this way.
Nissen, Yue Yun, Ah Miao, Zheng Zai, all felt the eeriness of this train carriage.
Even though there was no danger in this first carriage, the atmosphere was so peculiar.
Every passenger seemed to have issues.
Why did the passengers become this way? Why did they show creepy smiles like toy puppets?
And why could each person only mechanically answer one question?
Before understanding everything, no one dared to move forward.
Everyone also realized one thing.
"Following Wen Xishu, seeing Wen Xishu analyze and then starting to think myself, seems so easy..."
"But once truly separated from Wen Xishu, one realizes how hard it is to make progress."
This was Yue Yun’s thought at that moment.
Yue Yun had asked everyone now, learned some information, but this information couldn’t be pieced together.
At the same time, Yue Yun also didn’t dare to take the next step.
Several times, he came to the door of the carriage, the thought of entering the next carriage surfaced in his mind.
But in the end, Yue Yun chose no.
He didn’t dare to enter the next carriage.
...
...
Yue Yun didn’t dare, but Wen Xishu did.
Wen Xishu had already questioned everyone. But just like before, Ah Miao, Zheng Zai, and others, the current information wasn’t enough to piece together these people’s stories.
There were a few who invited Wen Xishu to the front carriage.
These were: the old man selling tea, the female attendant, the third and fourth migrant workers, and the bratty child.
The third and fourth migrant workers sat in the seventh row, gazing at the male attendant.
Wen Xishu temporarily received these people’s "invitation to the front carriage" in the first round.
Wen Xishu could actually get more invitations.
He could make each person invite him.
But after receiving the fourth invitation from the bratty child, Wen Xishu suddenly thought of something.
"Wait, specific conversations trigger invitations... but accumulating too many of these invitations might not be a good thing."
"Maybe I shouldn’t trigger an invitation from every NPC to go to the front carriage. This isn’t something where the more triggers, the better!"
Wen Xishu seemed to have realized something.
So he finally decided not to delay further, resolving to check out the next carriage.
[Do you want to go to the next carriage? Yes. No.]
Wen Xishu glanced back.
He also analyzed the results deduced by Yue Yun and others.
"The third and fourth migrant workers are likely not migrant workers but robbers posing as migrant workers."
"The woman and child likely have no blood relationship, possibly a trafficked child and their trafficker."
"That chubby boss looking at stock charts... but absent-minded."
"And the female student in the couple seems intentionally or unintentionally peeking at that boss."
"The bratty child’s family might be related to the first and second migrant workers."
"Notably, the first and second migrant workers are short-tempered, the third and fourth presumed robbers have bad tempers too, all are after money."
"The female attendant is solely focused on selling products to achieve her performance goals."
"The old man selling tea should be independent. Also... it’s possible that Xiaojin, Yue Yun, Ah Miao’s starting carriages didn’t even have this old man."
"But all this needs me to find them in other carriages to confirm. Hope they didn’t rashly proceed to the next carriage but instead wait for me to find them."
"As for more information, the core elements of this game have to wait until the second round..."
Biting his lips, Wen Xishu chose "Yes."
The door leading to the next carriage finally opened. Wen Xishu looked ahead; it was a vast expanse of white.
He no longer hesitated and stepped into the second carriage.